Asai'ka (Nation)

Government

• Oligarchy. Aristocracy + Plutocracy.
• Phraya Sel Ichiban is the ruler, but does not hold most of the power.
• Three main power centers
  • Phra (landed nobility). Heaviest control outside the capital.
  • Wealthy lai groups. Heaviest control in capital.
  • Priest bureaucracy. Total control of Ar Salem Dolem, influence over commoners outside of that. Hold power via threat of riots.
• Organized crime is heavy in the capital.

Peoples

• Fang-kin humans (40%)
• Fang-kin half-elves (40%)
• Ophidians (18%)
• dwarves (2%)

Religion

See Queen Ascendant. Common folk and ophidians are quite devout, upper castes pay lip service. Many of the wealthy worship Kela Loran or Aerielara. Perversions including demon (Barbed Rose, mainly) and devil worship (Mara) are rumored among the upper crust.

Culture

• Caste based, but the lines between the lai and isal castes has blurred significantly. Commoners are still lower class.
• Ophidians are not hated, but struggle to rise above the lower lai caste.
• Show of piety
• heavy corruption. Wealthy get away with almost anything.
• Plantations outside the city. Range from enlightened to brutal. Commoners aren't quite serfs or slaves, but not far off.

Capital

See Asai'ka (City).

Economy

Exports

Finished goods, especially metals. Religious and divine goods. Spices and dyes.

Imports

Wild products, fish.

International relationships

• Considered corrupt by the other two Jungle of Fangs nations.
• Moderately good by everyone else.

Leadership

TODO